Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spread across the U.S. without consistent geographical pattern: the outbreaks were like separate, spontaneous grass fires. Perhaps because of crowded living conditions, Negroes in the South seemed especially susceptible. Climate made no difference. One of the states hardest hit, after bottomland Mississippi (with 100,000 cases), was mile-high Colorado, where health officers saw no hope of checking the flu's ravages before 10% of the population has had it. In all the U.S. only 16 deaths were so far attributed to complications of the disease (mostly pneumonia...
...states. The Public Health Service reports 14 people dead of reactions "associated with Asian flu." Only in Mississippi, with 24,600 cases, was there evidence of an epidemic, but other states may not be far behind. Most strongly affected so far were schools. At the University of Colorado, 670 students (out of 9,733) were bedded. Texas Christian University at Fort Worth estimated that 700 students out of 5,400 were down with flu; many high school football games all over the state were canceled...
...more desolate spots than the Grand Canyon's Granite Gorge, where the millracing Colorado River widens, flattens and becomes the tip of Lake Mead. The nearest town, Peach Springs (pop. 550), Ariz., is 50 miles away. Yet there last week was a marvel of modern engineering: one of the world's longest single-span freight tramways, stretching 9,010 ft. across and 2,800 ft. up to the south rim. Its purpose: to haul bat manure out of caverns where it has lain for ages and hopefully net the haulers $12.5 million profit...
...finest natural fertilizers packed in the caves, in some places 70 ft. deep. The problem was to get it out. Various companies tried to dragline the guano out of the caves, lower it to the canyon floor, then float it down the river on barges. The Colorado's raging moods queered that plan. Others tried to ferry it out by helicopter and by light planes; one company managed to fly out 400 tons, a ton at a time, before the canyon's turbulent air and logistics problems forced a halt...
Interior turned over Barton's rubber check to the Justice Department, pondered the fact that now it has no authority to release the land. Meanwhile, Barton's Colorado River Enterprises, Inc. produced a second (cashier's) check-payable only on condition that he get more time to arrange the bond-which Acting Interior Secretary Hatfield Chilson frigidly ignored. At such intransigence, Barton lamented: "If the Indians don't get that land developed, it sure won't be my fault. I've done all I could for 'em. I've done my best...